Sunday, August 19, 2007

How to wash sotong (squid)?

I'm a sotong lover. I've always wanted to try to cook sambal sotong (one of my favorite food), but i do not know how to choose fresh sotong and i don't know how to wash it as well, how to cook?

Yesterday i went shopping at Tesco @ Puchong, i saw a group of ppl buying sotong. I told myself, it's either very cheap, or it's very fresh. So i also don't want to 'zap shu', i go buy as well. I see those aunties taking long long time to choose, since i dono how to choose, i just simply picked a few... so now, how to wash?????!!!!!

these are the ones i picked, looked fresh rite. hehe...
i took 4 only.. cos i scared i dono how to wash and
dono how to cook. 4 sotong = RM 1.93, cheap or not ar?

I took a few minutes to look at these squids,
and decided to pull out the head so that i
can wash the body.

pull pull pull,
i think i pulled out all the intestines
as well.

then i saw one transparent thing on the body
of the sotong, i pulled it out, i think it's the
bone of the sotong!!

wash wash wash, clean or not? hehe...
as for the head, i dono what to do with it,
so i ended up chopped off the eyes
then wash it ..

cut cut cut into small pieces..
so did i wash correctly ar?

5 comments:

Jys said...

it seems like the purple color outer skin needs to be removed also lar..

thanks to anonymous for telling me.. should have told me earlier mar.. :p

Anonymous said...

Hey...u housewfie ke??? How come so pandai cook?? If makan sotong outside...cost u min rm15~sigh!!! Cook urself...save a lot!!

Jys said...

no lar not housewife lar, just sometimes when free i cook a bit lar..

pandai cook? no lar, if pandai then i would know how to wash the sotong already lar.. hehe...

everything also got first time one mar, first time cook dono, second, third time sure know one lor..

never try never know mar. rite?

Anonymous said...

wah look yummy..maybe next time you could post some of your squid recipe eh

Jys said...

I did post the recipe on squid, check out the sambal sotong recipe here, http://jy-s.blogspot.com/2007/08/sambal-sotong.html

have fun cooking!!